Juan Dixon laughed at the notion that he was taking steroids. Instead, the former Maryland star claimed it was an honest mistake — as does, frankly, every other person who tests positive for steroids.
Dixon, who was playing professionally in Spain, was suspended indefinitely by FIBA after testing positive for nandrolone and he was scheduled to take a B sample test Monday. The results should be known within a week.
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“If it’s OK, I should be good to go,” he told ESPN.com while attending Pitt’s win over Villanova. His brother, Jermaine, plays for the Panthers.
And his reasoning for the positive test?
“I’m a supplement junkie,” Dixon told ESPN.com. “I like to try different things and I made the mistake of not doing the research and making sure it was legal.”
He’s not the first athlete to claim that mistake — it’s also what Redskins end Jeremy Jarmon said after he tested positive last year. It resulted in a suspension by the NCAA and subsequent entry into the supplemental draft (no pun intended, of course).
Dixon told ESPN that all anyone had to do was look at him to know that he wasn’t taking steroids. Not that muscle mass is the only byproduct of steroids. Still, he offered his body as proof.
“Steroids? C’mon,” he said. “I was 145 pounds in high school, 160 in college and I’m up to maybe 175 now. Look at me. Be serious. People can say whatever they want, but I’ve played the same way my whole life.”
